Posted on 02/03/2005 9:04:20 AM PST by Publius
“Do you want the people who run Amtrak to take out your appendix?”
LOL, that's a winner!
I've never done this professionally, but I've written a lot of Publius Essays over the past 8 years. The better ones are available in the "Links" area of my FReeper home page.
Remember the "hard hat" demonstration, I think in NYC, and "The Great Silent Majority?" They were about the war.
I would agree that on balance, Vietnam energized the split more thoroughly than race, although the Wallace democrats used the general backlash, fuelled by resentment of the urban riots which occurred intermittently throughout the sixties, including 1968.
Remember, a higher percentage of Senate and congressional Republicans voted for the 1964 Act than Dems and the Nixon administration was known for zealous enforcement. The Republican Party wasn't a very attractive alternative for Dems who might want to leave the party over desegregation.
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You Know, You Da Man Right ?
Glad you enjoyed it. I hope I called it right.
Dean’s accession to the party chair pushed the Democrats too far to the left. Soros was underwriting him, Move On and the entire party.
But for a Democrat to win, he (or she) would have to peel off a significant chunk of Republicans and independents, and occupying the Sensible Center is the only way to do it. Otherwise, it’s McGovern time all over again. Hillary has spent her first term setting herself up as a pragmatist and centrist, no doubt receiving a lot of coaching from her husband who was a master of triangulation.
With Dean pushing the party to the Hard Left, it becomes necessary to replace him, preferably with Harold Ickes, but that would open up a fight that would split the party. Hillary doesn’t need to be the heavy in an internal war to purge the Hard Left. They, after all, are the base. What Hillary needs is to control the purse strings. If she has that, then it doesn’t matter who chairs the party.
The coup is her seduction of Soros. If he’s underwriting Hillary’s effort, that means he has abandoned Move On and Dean, its avatar. It means that Hillary’s shadow party will harvest the unions for money while Dean will harvest the Hard Left. But Ickes will have the power while Dean becomes merely a figurehead.
In politics, always follow the money.
Bingo. And in re Soros: Double Dittos. Soros has used countries to manuever his own moneyed interests in past. I saw his dealings with MoveOn to be no different -- to manuever the Dem Party. Secret deals and handshakes.
I always did see Soro's move to support Move-on as only a blackmail economic tantrum in a tea-cup. Seems to me Hillary has agreed to whatever economic deals Soros wants in order to promote his financial agenda. I know it's something to do with "communications" especially in the mid-east. He was buying up stock in such companies last year like crazy.
Read The Bubble of American Supremacy, which Soros wrote for the Atlantic. He would like to bring this country back into harmony with the UN and the EU.
Soro's has been dabbling and manipulating in the European Markets for overlong. Some countries cannot abide the man.
The lefties (Soros included) wish for a "unified", all things equal" world wherein only the moneyed puppet masters behind the world governments run the show. This is Soro's world goal, IMHE.
I get the impression that possibly the only human Soros ever idolized was Henry the VIII.
"Yours Truly" is so thoughtful. :)
<Let's not loose sight of the fact that Iraq was a mess and the absence of WMDs led to many people feeling lied to.<
Oooo! What do you call Savin and Mustard Gas?
Nicely done.
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I disagree here.
The one thing I think you left out of the Dem pedigree was its labor roots. But the Dems morphed into a lifestyle party, leaving the labor wing marginalized.
If the blue-dog labor Dems find common ground with the anti-illegal-immigration conservatives, that could be the nucleus of the new party. And the corporatists pubbies and DLC Dems would be inclined to form the other party. Leaving the lifestyle types as an angry minority.
Barone is right about blacks being the "glue" of the party in terms of the voter base that keeps them competitive. But I think abortion cannot be overlooked. The pro-abortion bunch is genuinely afraid of pro-life people and reflexively votes Democratic. Abortion is the great fault-line in American politics, second only to the Boomers' romanticization of their 1960's opposition to Vietnam. My daughters find it quite amusing to spot the anti-Iraq demonstrators waiving signs at intersections - they all have grey hair!
Both issues could evaporate faster than people think, if the Iraq war is basically turned over to the Iraqi's in the next year and if Roe is overturned. Abortion could disappear as a major issue if Roe is overturned, the issue is returned to the legislatures, and the country discovers, contrary to NARAL, that women aren't being thrown in jail and abortion remains legal in most of the blue states.
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